IF YOU FIND THIS LETTER By Hannah Brencher (Howard, $23) This is a heartwarming memoir from Brencher, founder of The World Needs More Love Letters, who has dedicated her life to showing total strangers that they are not alone. Fresh out of college, Brencher moved to New York and felt lonely and depressed. She started writing and leaving love notes all over the city — in doctor's offices, in coat pockets, in library books, in bathroom stalls. Feeling crushed within a culture that connected mostly on phone and computer screens, she poured her heart out to strangers. She found solace in the idea that her words might brighten someone's day. TWO SCOOPS OF HOOAH! THE T-WALL...

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